they aren't there yet though. What are they waiting for? Rescuers are 
begging for help and satellite phones and the US can't decided whether it 
wants to accept a Canadian rescue diving team or a Swedish phone system. 

People are dying while they dither.

Dana
 On 9/7/05, Aaron Rouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> I read it as not turning them down, but not letting them come in yet. US 
> is
> letting some come in though, I have heard two mentionings today about the
> Mexican Army convoying there with water purification equipment and other
> things.
> 
> On 9/7/05, G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > But the problem is still one of coordination.
> >
> > I bet we have our own water purification system right here....i bet we
> > have
> > our own helicopters, our own search and rescue diving teams and 
> generators
> > and portable water tanks.......the problem is not resources. It's 
> command
> > and coordination of those resources.
> >
> > The real question isn't "Why did the US turn down goods and services 
> from
> > other countries?", it's "Why did it take so long for our own abundant
> > goods
> > and services to reach their destination?"
> >
> > > oh hey are we ready for another dose of outrage? I always thought it 
> was
> > > third-world countries that did not allow aid to reach their citizens.
> > > Among
> > > foreign aid that has been pledged and not accepted are a water
> > > purification
> > > system, helicopters, a search and rescue diving team and generators 
> and
> > > portable water tanks. Nothing that anyone in Louisiana and Mississipi
> > > would
> > > need....
> > >
> > >
> > 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601994.html
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

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